Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:09

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In article <Bxv2t2.4FH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu
(Herman Rubin) wrote:
> 	The use of | for or.  The vertical bar has been used in mathematics
> 	for other things for years.

You hypocrite!  The above statement says that mathematicians have been
overloading the vertical bar with vastly DIFFERENT meanings FOR YEARS. 
Furthermore, you've been complaining for years that most of our languages,
especially many assembly languages, don't allow overloading of operators,
even though you've wanted that feature.

However, when a computer language designer overloads the meaning of
vertical bar with "or", you complain:

> 	The notation of .OR. for it in some versions of Fortran
> 	was far better.

A self-consistent position is not one of your virtues.
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